Masters and Ph.D. Courses

This course is the first of two required accounting courses, designed to provide MBA students with a solid foundation in accounting. The course introduces students to (1) corporate financial statements and (2) basic cost concepts and their uses. By the end of the course,…Read more

The objective of this course is to provide the student with the ability to use accounting information to make longer-term planning and control decisions. In this second course in accounting, we focus mainly on performance evaluation, taking into account the measurement and…Read more

This course presents the basic concepts of microeconomics theory with an emphasis on business applications. The approach of microeconomics is to solve an economic problem by modeling it as an optimization problem; the solution to the optimization problems then interpreted…Read more

This class is designed to give you some insight into the enormous differences in economic environments faced by businesses around the world: how the environment in the United States differs from that in (say) France, China, or Mexico. We will view the world through the…Read more

Finance and financial markets are the mechanism that the economy uses to allocate resources across time and shape and share risks. Much of this activity takes place through corporations. The Finance I class will look at finance primarily through the lens of corporations…Read more

This course provides an introduction to the field of marketing and experience in analyzing situations that marketing managers encounter. The course emphasizes marketing principles, analysis and strategy. Topics include marketing management, buyer behavior, product policy,…Read more

Teams are increasingly used to innovate and implement in a variety of organizational settings. This course is designed to improve your effectiveness as a manager by introducing you to concepts for understanding individuals and teams in organizations. Students will be…Read more

This course is designed to improve your effectiveness a manager by introducing you to social network concepts and tools as they apply to organizations. A central objective of the course is understanding organizational structure, behavior, dynamics, and environment. You…Read more

This course is designed to enable students to understand how individuals may make mistakes in ethical decision-making, foster their ability to reason carefully and thoroughly about the ethical implications of managing organizations and people, and to help them more…Read more

This course introduces tools for decision making under uncertainty, ranging from the fundamentals of probability theory, decision theory and statistical models to simple software for data analysis. Topics include statistical independence, conditional probability, Bayes…Read more

This course covers fundamental optimization tools for quantitative analysis in the management sciences. The central topics of study are linear integer and nonlinear programming. Special emphasis is placed on linear programming particularly on modeling business applications…Read more

The objective of this course is to help you learn to analyze data and use methods of statistical inference in making business decisions. This course focuses on application of fundamental concepts from Probability and Statistics to drawing inferences from data. Topics…Read more

Operations management is unique and, to some degree, represents a paradox because it is concerned with one of the oldest and also the most newly engineered information driven activities. Production and logistics activities - such as communication, inventory management,…Read more

This course focuses on strategy as the search for rents among opportunities that are entrepreneurial, dynamic, and evolutionary. In this way this course presents "strategy as progress" as a complement to strategy as positioning. Here, the distinguishing feature of the…Read more

This is the first course in a three-course management communication core sequence designed to prepare you for the challenging demands of communicating strategically as leaders in formal business situations. The course educational objective: Develop sophisticated…Read more

To execute business objectives effectively, managers communicate on an interpersonal level with an array of people that includes employees, co-workers, senior executives, directors, investors, clients, vendors, distributors, union leaders, government officials and others.…Read more

This course focuses on best practices in written communication for business people in managerial and executive positions. Students will learn how to: target decision-making audiences at all corporate levels with precise, problem-solving language; write effective email that…Read more

This course is designed to strengthen your ability to correctly interpret financial statements and their accompanying disclosures. The course is aimed at anyone whose career might involve working with accounting data and should be especially useful for those interested in…Read more

STUDENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED TO TAKE THIS COURSE FOR PASS/FAIL1. Course objectives: This course is about fundamental analysis using financial statements. We develop and apply tools to help us understand firm activities that generate shareholder value. We also study earnings…Read more

This course combines accounting and finance theory to answer the following two questions:What is a stock worth?What is the expected return from a stock given its spot market price?Answering these questions is important in today's world which is increasingly dominated by…Read more

The course studies the role of managerial accounting systems in developing, communicating, and implementing an organization's strategy. Much of the course is focused on incentive issues throughout the organization, including the board of directors (corporate governance),…Read more

Lean Entrepreneurship is one of two introductory entrepreneurship courses offered to Tepper School of Business students and to graduate students from other CMU schools and colleges, as places are available. [The other introductory course is Entrepreneurial Alternatives…Read more

Entrepreneurial Alternatives will examine paths of entrepreneurship outside of high-growth, new venture creation. In particular, the course will focus on tactical elements of business acquisition and franchise purchase including target evaluation, financial analysis of…Read more

Commercialization and Innovation, Strategy (45-807) focuses on innovation (transformational or disruptive innovations and by sustained innovations) and on the development of open innovation business models and market strategies required to introduce these innovations into…Read more

Ever wonder if you are or could be an effective salesperson? Curious what skills a salesperson has that you can benefit from learning? Debating what style of selling works best in a large company compared to an early stage one? How do you incentivize a salesperson? What…Read more

This course employs a modern macroeconomic model of monetary policy to explain the interplay between real, monetary, and financial macroeconomic variables and the policies that influence them. We begin by studying the joint determination of aggregate output and the real…Read more

The course employs a two-country model of international trade and finance to explain the determination of the exchange rate, the terms of trade, the trade balance, financial flows, and interest rates in the global context. We explore the scope for interest rate policy to…Read more

Finance II is the prerequisite for all finance electives. The course develops the concepts and tools needed to analyze publicly traded securities, and to apply the tools to real world situations problems such as optimal portfolio formation, cost of capital estimation,…Read more

The objective of Investment Analysis is to introduce you to the tools used by investment professionals to manage assets and their risks. The course covers optimal asset allocation, its performance evaluation, and risk management. The goal is to apply basic tools in finance…Read more

Applied Corporate Finance (45-822) is a case-based elective course that covers topics in capital budgeting, corporate valuation, payout policy, capital structure, and real options. The aim of the course is to highlight the value of financial theory in solving practical…Read more

This course covers derivative markets, valuation and risk management. Derivatives are financial instruments that "derive" their value from an underlying asset. Derivatives contracts come in a variety of forms, including forwards, futures, options and swaps, and are used by…Read more

This course will cover issues related to both international financial markets and the financial operations of a firm within the international environment. Topics will include the structure and functioning of the international currency and money markets; identification,…Read more

This course is aimed at the manager who is the ultimate user of marketing research and the one responsible for determining the scope and direction of research activities. The techniques of research design, data collection and data analysis occupy an important role in the…Read more

Determining the price of a product or service is one of the most important marketing decisions. It is also one of the most complex and least understood aspects of marketing. While many marketing activities are geared toward creating value for the customer, sound pricing…Read more

The course focuses on the strategy for introduction of new products and services. In particular the course methodologies to enable you to: a) evaluate and value new product projects, b) identify opportunities, c) design and implement a conjoint study to refine and optimize…Read more

Marketing, in particular, begins and ends with the consumer - from determining consumer needs to ensuring customer satisfaction. In this course, we will explore the most recent scientific research in marketing, psychology, and behavioral economics on judgment and decision…Read more

In this course, students will examine the theory and practice of negotiation across a variety of settings. The course is designed to address a broad spectrum of negotiation problems that are faced by managers and professionals. It provides students with the opportunity to…Read more

Groups and Teams in Organizations examines the design, management, and leadership of teams in organizational settings. The focus is on the interpersonal processes and structural characteristics that influence the effectiveness of groups and teams when engaged in a variety…Read more

Managing knowledge effectively is key to the performance and competitiveness of organizations. The course examines how organizations innovate or create new knowledge, how they retain knowledge, and how they transfer knowledge. Strategic implications of new results on…Read more

Power is the ability to get things done. It is fundamental for taking action in organizations and in society. Organizations are political institutions, and effectively mobilizing resources to get things doneis essential if a manager is to be effective in their job.In this…Read more

One of the main features of today's business world is the ubiquitous use of technology: we would like to derive insights from numerous sources of data and add value by proposing best-fitting, cutting-edge courses of action, which are implementable in practice. This results…Read more

Interest in big data analytics has skyrocketed recently. The recent explosion in large-scale high-resolution data enables managers to ask and answer questions regarding businesses and consumers at a whole new level. Managers are faced with data about businesses and…Read more

Optimization models play an increasingly important role in financial decisions. Many computational finance problems ranging from asset allocation to risk management, from option pricing to model calibration, can be efficiently solved using modern optimization techniques.…Read more

This course is designed to meet the increasing demands from the industry and recruiters for the application of quantitative and analytical skills to support sophisticated marketing decision making. The content of the course is based on cutting-edge research in optimization…Read more

In a dynamic, competitive world, an organization's effectiveness depends significantly on how well its resources are managed, placing much emphasis on both strategic as well as day-to-day decisions regarding its operations. Historically, 'operations' have been the main…Read more

This course has two broad objectives. One is to give you more experience in analysis of data. The other is to add to your took kit of statistical methods. The course emphasizes learning by doing. Applications in the course demonstrate that analysis of data can be exciting…Read more

Matching supply with demand is an enormous challenge for firms: excess supply is costly, inadequate supply irritates customers and can yield lost revenue opportunities. In this course we will explore how firms can improve the operational management of the demand for their…Read more

To understand six sigma we must understand its underlying philosophy, that of the modern quality movement. Therefore we will first compare and contrast the ideas of various quality "gurus" examining the different ways to define and measure quality. In most cases, the goal…Read more

A supply chain includes supply, production, storage, distribution, and selling facilities that are connected by material, informational, and financial links. Since facilities are not necessarily connected in a serial fashion, despite its name, a supply chain describes a…Read more

In today's world, executives must make decisions under very high degrees of uncertainty. Whether these decisions concern forecasting, capacity and supply chain planning, or financial analyses of complex financial instruments, first understanding, then modeling and finally…Read more

The goal of this course is to provide conceptual frameworks and analytical tools to optimize key decisions in formulating operations strategy and in managing operational processes. The intended audience for this course is those who seek better understanding of the…Read more

Being "strategic" means intelligently seeking your own goals in situations that involve other parties who do not share your goals. The purpose of 45-870 is to develop your understanding of strategic situations encountered as a manager. Taking 45-870 will teach you to…Read more

"Trade and Investment Strategy" is a strategy elective on the microstructure of trade and growth in private enterprise. It combines analytic with experimental methods to investigate strategic interactions in bidding, buying, selling, designing trading mechanisms,…Read more

The course Technology Strategy is about business strategy for technology-intensive industries. It is not only suitable for students who wish to concentrate in strategy but also in marketing, as I cover two of the 4 P's of marketing (Product and Price). Examples of…Read more

Government at all levels can significantly affect business through regulations, international relations, funding, or the myriad of political processes and people. The way your business interacts with government can make you a success or a failure.Competitive markets are…Read more

The purpose of the course will be to provide a business understanding of the laws governing contracts (sale of goods both internationally and domestically; providing of services); how the choice of law governs how and when contracts are formed; how contracts are…Read more

The goal of this course is to study the strategic role of information technology (IT) in businesses today. IT not only commands more than a third of firm capital budgets, it also is a major driver of business successes and failures. It is now clear that the road to the…Read more

The objective of this course is to learn how to organize and manipulate data for making critical business decisions. "Data Management" in this course includes both the analysis of various sizes and types of data and their synthesis into fact-based, data-driven…Read more

This course posits to explore issues related to digital and social media marketing. This is a hands-on class where you will use real world data. We will cover the following topics in class.
Search Engine Optimization: how search engines, keyword auctions, and search engine…Read more

Students enrolled in 45-887 who only want to work on a team project in mini 3, should contact Linda Moreci (laf20@cs.cmu.edu) to enroll for an extra 3 units of credit under 08-767. Course Description http://www.normsadeh.com/ms-course-overview

See full information:http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/uicourse/05863fall17/Human computer interaction (HCI) is an interdisciplinary field in which computer scientists, engineers, psychologists, social scientists, and design professionals play important roles. The goal of HCI is…Read more

Consulting and Conflict Resolution offers you a systematic methodology for improving your interpersonal communications skills as well as your effectiveness as a consultant, mediator, and business leader. In the course students learn how employ the strategies that experts…Read more

This course provides opportunities for you to hone your business leadership skills by competing in five in-class contests, debates, and case competitions with other MBA students.
Competitive presentation techniques are absolutely essential to every MBA's toolkit. It isn't…Read more

As you advance up the managerial ladder you're likely to find yourself facing irate shareholders or analysts or legislators or consumers or - worst of all in the eyes of many executives - journalists and broadcasters who are covering your company's relationships with one…Read more

Organizations must change to remain competitive, yet employees are often slow to accept change. In this course, students will develop strategies for understanding, identifying, and clarifying the reasons for this and develop communication strategies to earn support.…Read more

The course teaches empathetic listening and assertive influence achieved through practical Acting tools rooted in the basic concepts of "Action" and of the Speaker's "Best Possible Self", and through the cumulative Seven Stages to Executive Presence. Participants must…Read more

Business Acting II is an opportunity to further unlock your potential as a communicator through becoming more proficient, thorough and masterful at the principles and practical techniques introduced in the first course: Business Acting. This second course is tailored to…Read more

Corporate Communications Simulation is an elective course that enables students to enact the communications methodologies, mediums, and strategies they will need to fulfill in managerial roles within a corporation. Students will take on roles of top executives in a…Read more

This elective focuses on best practices in written communication for business people in managerial positions. Students will receive instruction and feedback to help them understand the expectations of future and present employers and Tepper faculty to: target…Read more

Funding Early Stage Ventures is a course intended for students interested in the area of high-risk finance from the entrepreneurial and venture capital perspectives. It is highly recommended that students have taken Entrepreneurship for High Growth Companies (45-805).…Read more

Course Objectives - The course provides a broad overview of business trends in the manufacturing segment (the production side) of the healthcare industry, with emphasis on the strategic, competitive, and financial challenges in its major market segments: pharmaceuticals,…Read more

Commercialization and Innovation is offered in two minis to Tepper School of Business MBA students and to qualified graduate students from other CMU schools, as places are available. The first mini (45-807) is entitled Commercialization and Innovation, Strategy, and the…Read more

The purpose of this course is to apply basic marketing principles to start-up and early-stage businesses. The differences between marketing for start-up and early-stage entrepreneurial firms and traditional large businesses are:
1) no or limited marketing budgets to fund…Read more

The goal of this course is to give students an introduction to the basic time series models. The students will learn the basic summary statistics i.e. autocovariances, trendsand seasonal cycles. The course will focus on forecasting observed series and the estimation of…Read more

The aim of the course is to understand the economic, political and institutional forces that spur or hinder business activity and success in emerging economies. The course is designed to provide an overview of fiscal, monetary, trade and labor market policies adopted in…Read more

FOR MBA STUDENTS ONLY.This course covers the financial, economic, and strategic reasons for major corporate restructuring transactions. The types of corporate restructurings that are examined include: mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, leverage buyouts and private…Read more

The aftermath of the financial crisis has emphasized the importance of regulation for our financial system, leading to restructuring of our system of financial intermediaries and basic challenges confronting the management of these institutions. The new attention to…Read more

This course covers state-of-the-art concepts and techniques required for the analysis of debt markets with a focus on corporate bonds and capital structure. Students will first learn about basic concepts of fixed income markets such as the term structure of interest rates…Read more

Many active portfolio strategies involve hunting for "anomalies" or "mis-pricing" that produce returns in excess of their risk. Many strategies are empirical. A portfolio manager notices (looks for!) a pattern in the data such as small firms have higher average returns.…Read more

Development and testing of a risk management system designed to manage the price and quantity (wind!) risks that are a fundamental aspect of Everpower's existing business and strategic plans for growth.
Course Credit: 12 units (2 Minis). Not a capstone(10/12)

Most managers are ill equipped to predict key events or numbers, having neither the technical skills nor the right mindset. All levels of an organization need to make predictions ranging from numerical forecasts of sales and earnings to predictions in which they have very…Read more

Service and e-commerce businesses constitute the majority of interactions for most customers, and most business students will work in service jobs, whether they are in manufacturing, e-com, or service companies. Although businesses give much lip-service to customer…Read more

Marketing communications are the means by which marketers establish and build relationships with consumers through --directly or indirectly-- informing, persuading, and reminding consumers about the brands they sell.
This course is designed to help students develop an…Read more

This course develops a set of principles so that the marketing manager can implement a strategy that utilizes electronic and social media. Marketing strategy has at its core a customer-centered focus, and we evolve this focus further into Interactive Marketing. Interactive…Read more

Marketing has become much more quantitative and data intensive in recent years. Strategies like interactive marketing, customer relationship management, and database marketing push companies to utilize the information they collect about their customers in order to make…Read more

The purpose of this course is to develop your ability to use evidence-based human resource practices. It is designed to help you learn how to tap the ever-growing body of research evidence regarding human resource decisions in organizations and to make well-informed…Read more

Contemporary managers and their decisions are heavily swayed by fads and the promises consultants make. Evidence Based Management (EBM) identifies effective practices, separating them from fads and hype. Managers practicing EBM learn how to obtain and use the best…Read more

This course focuses on processes of organizational change. The goals are to provide frameworks and tools for effectively introducing and sustaining organizational change. Topics include initiation, implementation and institutionalization of change in various organizational…Read more

This course will explore three topics:
1) Understanding Intellectual Capital (IC) and its role in the emerging economy.
2) Managing brainpowered businesses (e.g., software, investment banking, professional firms, telecommunications, and health care) and departments (e.g,…Read more

This seminar will explore two topics: 1) Understanding the role of star performance and high productivity in both career development and organizational success. 2) Learning how to develop star performance and high productivity. A major premise of the course is that star…Read more

Operations Research Implementations is highly recommended for those students participating in the Business Analytics Track. Operations research is a key aspect of business analytics. Most real-world operations research projects require data and capabilities beyond what…Read more

This is a course on how social, economic and information agents involved in a business are connected, and how the study of these networks sheds light on these connections. Topics will include closure, ties and balance in organizational networks, auctions and their…Read more

In this course we will explore and develop definitions of sustainability in general, and sustainable operations in particular. We will also investigate how companies can evaluate and implement sustainability measures, and different motivations for firms to engage or invest…Read more

This course is about the art of invention and the novel use of technologies that can help corporations in crisis or corporations that need to improve their competitive position. We will analyze case-studies of corporations in crisis (of various kinds) and learn how to…Read more

Description: Managers need advice on what actions to take or how to value a firm managed by others. This advice is particularly relevant when it pertains to strategic and tactical decisions. Before we can advise managers on what to do, we need to specify an objective…Read more

As the world's major economies have matured, they have become dominated by service providing organizations. These service focused businesses respond to the requirements of customers to satisfy some needs and leave certain experiences in their minds. This course addresses…Read more

Catastrophic risk can end corporate life. Catastrophic risks are unanticipated losses or damage that cripple an organization and often lead to a survival mode. The following questions are examples of corporate survival situations that are the results of catastrophic risks.…Read more

This course covers a range of analytical techniques and problem solving tools in strategy. The course is designed to help students develop the ability to comprehensively analyze a business case and to present their findings in a rigorous and compelling fashion. Included…Read more

In this course we look at the phenomenon of 'Big Data' as an emerging force in the global business environment. The course will offer a conceptual foundation for capturing, managing, and analyzing enormous amounts of data to make better business decisions (and to build…Read more

This course is about the art of invention and the strategic use of technologies that can help corporations in crisis or corporations that need to improve their competitive position. We will analyze case-studies of corporations in crisis (of various kinds) and learn how to…Read more

The objective of the course is to introduce students to the technologies business models security privacy and usability issues associated with Web Commerce. Topics typically covered include search technologies B2B and electronic marketplaces internet marketing and…Read more

This course explores software development from a managerial perspective putting emphasis on agile software product management and development and the challenges of working with distributed teams.
The course starts by explaining the overall software development process and…Read more

Management Game (12 units)
The Management Game is an applied strategic management and general management exercise where teams of students operate computer simulated companies for 3 years acting as the executive committee of a multi-national manufacturing company. Groups of…Read more

Strategic Management of the Enterprise (12 units)
Strategic Management of the Enterprise Capstone is an experiential learning course that features a broad range of exciting projects. It is an innovative project course being offered in partnership with A.T. Kearney and…Read more

Germany Study Abroad (12 units)
Germany Study Abroad is a four week experience that takes place in spring 2019, Mini 4. The program runs for four weeks (beginning in mid-March 2019). During this time you will be in Koblenz Germany, Bratislava, Berlin and Prague. The…Read more

Hong Kong-China Study Abroad (12 units)
Hong Kong-China Study Abroad is a four week experience that takes place in spring 2019, Mini 4. The program runs for four weeks (beginning in mid-March 2019). The partner school is The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business…Read more

This course focuses on how to design, conduct, analyze and present a primary marketing research project completed by individual class students and/or teams. By learning about both the practical "art" and "science" of running a survey, conducting a focus group,…Read more

MPD # 49-720In this course, you will progress through a series of roles, from product assistant to group product manager/marketing VP, that give you the opportunity to experience what it is like to do product and brand management. Through interactive lecture, case…Read more

This is an applied econometrics course that covers the estimation techniques and econometric theory used in contemporary empirical work. With the goal of making causal inference, we will focus on the application of the tools in corporate finance and accounting. The methods…Read more

This course focuses on theoretical and empirical research in corporate finance. Topics covered include capital structure decisions, payout policy, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, and financial distress and bankruptcy.

This course is designed with three main goals:
To help you understand what makes for good research in consumer behavior.
To give you an overview of a selection of topics in social and cognitive psychology as they inform consumer behavior and decision-making.
To expose you…Read more

Researchers frequently collect measurements on several variables simultaneously. Multivariate statistics is focused on the analysis of these simultaneous measurements. It generalizes the ideas of univariate data analysis to create analyses that are more powerful both in a…Read more

This course focuses on empirical structural models and their applications in Marketing, Economics, and Information Systems. The goal is to help students build up necessary toolkits and provide hands-on experience of applying structural models to empirical researches by…Read more

The objective of this course is to help doctoral students develop basic understandings on empirical methods and research applications in Operations Management, including interdisciplinary researches with OR, Marketing, Information Systems, etc..
The course will be…Read more

This course is an introduction to microeconomic theory and concerns the behavior of individual consumers and firms in competitive settings. The specific topics to be covered are preference and choice, optimization theory, consumer theory, producer theory and choice under…Read more

General Equilibrium analysis focuses on the question of how a market economy allocates resources. This analysis builds on the theories of consumer and producer behavior developed in the study of microeconomics by examining how the interactions of economic agents determine…Read more

This is an introductory course in modern macroeconomics. We will cover topics from basic growth theory to labor markets, asset pricing and government policy. The aim of the class is twofold. First, we become familiar with basic questions that we would like to answer in…Read more

The Dynamic Competitive Analysis course examines the two major models of dynamic economic analysis, the neo-classical growth model and the overlapping generations model. The first part of the course develops the multi-sector model of capital accumulation, focusing…Read more

This is a course in the basic tools of numerical analysis that can be used both to assess the quantitative implications of economic theory and to derive theoretical results of economic models without analytical solutions. While the most examples will come from…Read more

This course is an introduction to the basic questions, tools and techniques used in empirical social science research. Students will learn to calculate and perform correct inference on parameter estimates. The course focuses on the multivariate linear model. Topics…Read more

This course is about estimating structural economic models. The basic question is how to use data to estimate the parameters of an economic model. We will want to establish: 1. establish the consistency of the estimators, 2. establish the asymptotic normality of the…Read more

This course is a Ph.D. level introductory course in game theory and concerns economic situations in which rational decision-makers interact. The course is intended to teach students the tools necessary to use game theoretic models in a wide variety of applications. At the…Read more

This course will cover the basics of contract theory and its application to economic problems. A contract is a set of rules that facilitates interaction among individuals beyond the simplest forms of barter. You have already encountered simple contracts; for example, in…Read more

Linear programming lies at the basis of modern optimization theory. This course focuses primarily on linear programming theory and algorithms, leaving beyond the scope of its practical applications. The main topics to be covered include modeling examples and expressive…Read more

This is the first part of a full-semester course on algorithmic graph theory. We review the basic concepts and central results of graph theory. Representations of graphs. Subgraphs, paths, cycles. Connectivity. Bipartite graphs. Trees. Euler tours and Hamilton cycles.…Read more

This is the second part of a full semester course on algorithmic graph theory. It covers network flows and matchings, the two most important classes of polynomially solvable combinatorial optimization problems. Network flow models. Maximum flow, minimum cut. Minimum-cost…Read more

The objective of this course is to provide an introduction to the theory and applications of dynamic programming (DP). We will investigate the theory and methods commonly used in DP. We will illustrate their use in solving particular models in various areas, which may…Read more

Data sets have grown to an astonishing size and companies like Yahoo, Google and Twitter are processing up to a petabyte of data every day. There is an opportunity to discover more and better information by processing large data sets. While this opportunity…Read more

The purpose of this course is to give a solid foundation on convex optimization. Convex optimization, broadly speaking, is the most general class of optimization problems that are efficiently solvable. It has been fundamental in the development of Operations Research based…Read more

This is a reading and discussion seminar for graduate students, including PhD, MS, and MBA students. We will read some of the seminal literature in the study of the modern electric power industry. We will begin by reading and discussing portions of Power Loss: The Origins…Read more

This is a reading and discussion seminar for PhD students. We will read some of the seminal literature in the study of the modern electric power industry. We will begin by reading and discussing portions of Power Loss: The Origins of Deregulation and Restructuring in the…Read more

This reading and discussion seminar for graduate students, limited to 15 students, will cover Low Carbon Electric Power. We will discuss the technical, economic, and policy aspects, using research papers and readings from two books. We will critically review and…Read more

This course introduces central concepts in Organizational Theory. The main objective of this course is to create a forum to discuss and develop an understanding of the different strategies organizational theorists use to explain organizational processes, develop theories,…Read more

This course provides an introduction to research methodology applicable to organizational behavior and other related fields. The course will survey the major research methodologies used in organizational behavior and social/personality psychology, and will focus on both…Read more

This course explores relationships between economic theory, identification, estimation and econometric practice. It develops structural approaches for analyzing large cross sectional and longitudinal data sets, by exploiting restrictions derived from the equilibrium…Read more

The past 10 years have seen a number of advances beyond traditional two-step GMM estimation. These advances have focused on providing moment-based estimators and hypothesis tests with more accurate approximation to the sampling distributions. Examples include: continuous…Read more

This course is designed to introduce you to current topics in macroeconomics with an emphasis on prices and labor markets. The main goals of this course are to expose students to research questions at the current frontier, discuss a variety of open questions in this area…Read more

This seminar will focus on helping students get to know the research of faculty in the OBT group and/or the broader CMU/UPitt community of organizational behavior researchers. Each session will focus on getting to know a sampling of work by one or two researchers and…Read more

This graduate seminar will survey major theories and research on negotiation and conflict management. The readings will be centered on the organizational behavior and social/personality psychology literature on negotiation, conflict, cooperation, and related topics.…Read more

This is a seminar class intended to familiarize doctoral students on research approach that follows the Economining principle where it applies machine learning techniques such as deep learning, natural language processing, and computer vision along with rich economic…Read more